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motquitica.

Headword: 
motquitica.
Principal English Translation: 

something complete, pure (see Molina)

Alonso de Molina: 

motquitica. cosa entera maciza, o fina.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 060v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

titlaçochalchihuitl titeoxihuitl timotquitzinotica = you are a most pure, virginal maiden [see also note 14, which explains that this is an "interesting reverential form of motquitica (complete, pure) used as a reflexive verb" and cites Siméon] (central Mexico, early seventeenth century)
Codex Chimalpahin: Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahuatl Altepetl in Central Mexico; The Nahuatl and Spanish Annals and Accounts Collected and Recorded by don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), vol. 2, 152–153.